PT-2008-6145 · Myspell · Myspell

Published 2008-11-06 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4973

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions myspell version 3.1

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files /tmp/i2my#####.1 and /tmp/i2my#####.2.

Recommendations For myspell version 3.1, consider restricting access to the temporary files /tmp/i2my#####.1 and /tmp/i2my#####.2 to prevent a symlink attack until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4973

Affected Products

Myspell

References · 11

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/myspell-tools · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4973 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44830 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496392 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30929 · Note